Hey Tazzi, I can say for sure unless you're a mountain goat, get the 2x. I went 1x on my new dualie and find it a little clumsy when I ride lots of hills. It's not the lack of range, just you have to hunt from high to low on the rear all the time. For example, going up a hill you pick the 24 on the front and something in the middle on the rear that works for you, when you get to the top and need to go down, you can shift up the front from 24 to 36 and away you go, without having to touch the rear. The same scenario with my 1x, you're changing madly to get the rear up and down the cassette, even with rapidshift you still have to hit the lever 3-4 times to get from 11 to 42.
Oh and we would have bought the Tempt 1 if it was 2x, hence we bought the Tempt 2.
